Legislative Practice and Nature Protection in Russia’s Kola Peninsula

• Main Authors: Sergey Shestakov, Valery Barcan
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Among them; the Severonickel; Arctic; Kirovsk; Koashva; Kola Peninsula; Kovdor; Niva; Olenegorsk; kola peninsula; Lapland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.526.424; http://www.georgewright.org/172shestakov.pdf

suite of laws enacted during the 1990s has allowed Russia to begin to realize more effective nature protection. The following federal laws, which are the result of direct action by Russian lawmakers, state the value of a healthy environment and fix punishments for transgressions: • The law “On prote...